Summer Love

By Mandi 05/22/2014

Happy last day of school!!!! (At least for my girls anyway.)  The freedom that summer brings is somewhat intoxicating, wouldnt you agree? 

I thought it would be fun to share some of my most recent summery purchases.  There is an obvious but unintentional theme happening. Apparently this year summer is going to be pink, orange, and yellow. 

I am mighty in love with this mason line.  You can find it at Home Depot by the rope and chain.  The possibilities are endless.  I am thinking something absolutely Macra-mazing…

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These little melamine bowls from Target have found their way home with me more than once.  I love the pattern on the outside, it reminds me of the Matterhorn at Disneyland. (i.e. summer!) And I mean, they are adorable little containers that you can use for ANTYTHING.

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I have been working on a few projects using my Cricut Explore.  The idea for these leather bound notebooks came to me at 3:32  one morning and they turned out exactly the way I was picturing them.   The entire thing, start to finish was made with my Explore, except binding them, you will have to do that on your own.  *please note the mason line!

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 Leather Notebook vintagerevivals.com

You can see some of the leather notebook Make It Now projects here.  I will have a tutorial coming up soon!

Have a fantastic Thursday, I am off to buy my weight in Otter Pops…

Love Your Guts

9 thoughts on “Summer Love”

  1. Can I just say all this new Cricut stuff you’re posting is devastating to me. Devastating in a “I’m-so-jealous-of-all-that-it-can-do-and-wish-I-didn’t-just-get-a-silhouette-portrait-for-Christmas” kind of way. But alas at the time it was on my Christmas list all I knew of Cricut was that I couldn’t do my own designs. Which as a designer is a BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG turn off. Welp, enough complaining. I’m totally adoring those leather notebooks.

  2. Hey Mandi! PULEEEESEEEE post the bed build for Macies room. Its been promised but not posted. I need to know because I am going to use it in my daughters room redo (picture your daughters dog thing but with a horse). Since I’m stealing many of your ideas aaaannnnndddd it is because of you that I have gotten to be all diy I need you to post this. Pretty Please!!!!!!!
    Thanks!!!!
    R

  3. HI! I have those neon strings from home depot. I found that burning the string on the knot makes for a stronger hold than a plain knot which just un-does. I would love to see what other uses you can find for them!

  4. Mandi!
    I love these notebooks, I actually used the template and made some for my girls trip to NYC last month. They are the perfect size for using a little wash tape and taping our instax pictures in them! I do have one quick question!!! I can’t seem to add/upload/download any fonts to cricut without it separating the “write” lines of the font into two double lines….I hope that makes sense haha! On your text “Your Guts Are Loved” the text is one single stroke & I was wondering how to get my fonts to look that way. No clue if you will see this comment but fingers crossed!!

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